Anthropogenic sea-level rise is forcing—and will force—extraordinary measures in adaptation and retreat. At the same time, it is compelling conventions in aesthetics, geography, and narrative to contend with fundamental challenges to description, reference, perception, and place. This article examines Elizabeth Rush's Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore (2018), an ambitious and sensitive account of the impacts of sea-level rise on coastal communities in the United States. Among Rising's proliferating seascapes, inundation tends to entail a fundamental loss of place, and open waters tend to prove inhospitable to history and memory. The article situates these tendencies among theories of aqueous and marine location, systems of narrative reference, and settler-colonial traditions in spatiality. I read Rising as a statement, poignant and perturbing, of anthropogenic sea-level rise as a creeping catastrophe for certain conventions in interpretation, imagination, and representation—and an impetus to recognize and amplify alternate ontologies. My wider purpose is threefold: to furnish one method for accessing and interpreting the literatures of sea-level rise; to identify the imaginative constraints impinging on certain liquid imaginaries; and to gesture toward the presence and promise of other visions. I aim, ultimately, to help demonstrate the poetic polysemy that incoming waters can be heard, and read, to supply—and to make place for the voices of those who are helping situate their, and "our," watery futures.

人为造成的海平面上升正在迫使——并将迫使——在适应和撤退方面采取非常规措施。与此同时，美学、地理学和叙事方面的惯例必须与描述、参考、感知和地点方面的基本挑战抗衡。本文审视了伊丽莎白·拉什 (Elizabeth Rush) 的《崛起：来自新美国海岸的消息》(2018)，这是一部雄心勃勃且敏感的文章，讲述了海平面上升对美国沿海社区的影响。在上升之中随着海洋景观的不断增加，洪水往往会导致地方的根本性丧失，而开阔的水域往往会被证明对历史和记忆来说是荒凉的。这篇文章将这些趋势置于水域和海洋位置理论、叙事参考系统以及空间性的定居者殖民传统之间。我读瑞星作为一种令人心酸和令人不安的声明，人为海平面上升是对某些解释、想象和表现惯例的缓慢灾难，也是认识和扩大替代本体的动力。我的更广泛的目的有三个：提供一种获取和解释海平面上升文献的方法；确定影响某些流动想象力的想象力约束；并向其他愿景的存在和承诺做出手势。最终，我的目标是帮助展示可以听到、阅读和供应流入的水域的诗意多义性——并为那些帮助确定他们和“我们的”水域未来的人的声音腾出空间。